Ivri notes that EU is a huge market, and runs through the trade cooperation advantages. He mentions that 1/3 of the Israeli export reaches EU (worth about $13 billion annually). “They love the Israeli export – and we love theirs!” he says. He notes that Israel imports goods for $21 billion. He then notes the touristic value for ‘us and them.’

“You thought EU doesn’t agree with us on anything?” he asks, then describes the ‘open skies’ agreement: “We gave them free access to our airports, and they gave us free access to theirs – they have 500 of them!” [4]

He notes that every year 2 million tourists come to Israel and leave $2 billion in Israel. He says Europeans love the Israeli agricultural export; 80 percent of Israel’s fresh agricultural export goes to Europe, worth about 1 million Euros a year, including of course the cherry tomatoes and tahini. Then Ivri moves on to technology – high-tech – drones (which are of course battle-tested against Palestinians), moving on to irrigation, cyber-security etc.

Having cited all these advantages, Ivri concludes,

“It also doesn’t hurt for us to be identified by technological innovation, rather than by other things… So the next time you hear about the EU, remember – they are the best neighbors we’ve got!” [5]

I can’t believe you have the guts to promote this untasteful propaganda,

completely ignoring the fact, that Israel is no average State, but a

50 years occupation power, with as a consequence war-crimes, human

rights violations and crimes against humanity.

What else you would describe the starvation of the population

of the people of Gaza, called the Gaza Blockade? [6]

And there is more to it:

Israel’s bloody military operations, especially

in Gaza:

In operation ”Protective Edge” in 2014, thousands of Palestinians

have been killed, from who one third children. [7]

Schools and hospitals were destroyed, numerous wounded

people!

And then the humanitarian consequences in the aftermath. [8]

There is more, much more:

The policy of apartheid, charactarized by the different law systems,

in Israel the ”normal” law, in the occupied Palestinian territories

the ”military law. [9] For civilians.

The continuing expansion of the illegal settlements [10],

as the EU itself stated [11] the

water theft with the Palestinians as humanitarian victims. [12]

The humanitarian consequences of the illegal Wall. [13]

And so on:

AND WHAT DOES THE EU?

Nothing but talk and worse, promoting a positive Israeli-EU

relation at the moment you should not only

condemn Israel, but draw the consequences to reconsider or

make an end to the EU Association with Israel.

You have a human rights clausule [14]

Use it!

YOUR GENOCIDAL VIDEO PRESENTATOR MR AVISHAI IVRI’

The presentator you hired for your ”making love to the Israeli

public” stuntvideo, mr Avishai Ivri is an evil one.

Not a word I use lightly, but this man is

I quote some of his statements:

In an Israeli News debate

”“You’re always asking [us] ‘what’s your solution? What’s your solution? Hello?? We don’t shout ‘Death to the Arabs’ because it rhymes!” “We shout it because it’s our solution! We fucking write it with spray on the wall! How secret do you think we keep our solution?” [15]

”A new report published by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) outlines the nature of the legal regime currently operating in the West Bank. Two systems of law are applied in a single territory: one – a civilian legal system for Israeli citizens, and a second – a military court system for Palestinian residents. The result: institutionalized discrimination.”

”The laws implemented in the West Bank are inequitable and discriminate against Palestinians. Although the settlers live in the same geographical area in which martial law is imposed, Israel has decided that they are not subject to military law, but rather to Israeli law. The application of two distinct legal systems in a single territory constitutes gross discrimination”

”The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring citizens from its own territory to the occupied territory (Article 49).

The Hague Regulations prohibit an occupying power from undertaking permanent changes in the occupied area unless these are due to military needs in the narrow sense of the term, or unless they are undertaken for the benefit of the local population.”

”Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.”

”The EU considers that settlement building anywhere in the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, is illegal under international law, constitutes an obstacle to peace and threatens to make a two-state solution impossible. ”

”Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement.”